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Iran targeting international IP for theft and extortion

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Nov

2017

The U.S. Department of Justice indicted Behzad Mesri, aka Skote Vahshat, on charges of hacking into HBO and stealing Game of Thrones episodes. Following the theft of the unaired episodes, Mesri allegedly attempted to extort HBO for $6 million in Bitcoin. Read More

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US Government issues alert about North Korean “Hidden Cobra” cyber attacks

16

Nov

2017

The FBI and US Department of Homeland Security have issued an alert that hackers have targeted the aerospace industry, financial services and critical infrastructure with a remote access trojan (RAT) to further exploit vulnerable networks. In a US-CERT alert the attacks are blamed on a group of hackers known as “Hidden Cobra” working for the […]

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Hack of Attack-for-Hire Service vDOS Snares New Mexico Man

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Nov

2017

A New Mexico man is facing federal hacking charges for allegedly using the now defunct attack-for-hire service vDOS to launch damaging digital assaults aimed at knocking his former employer’s Web site offline. Prosecutors were able to bring the case in part because vDOS got massively hacked last year, and its customer database of payments and […]

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